Device for hanging saws



(No Model-y I E. P. DONNELL.

DEVICE FOR HANGING SAWS NO. 265,037. Patented Sept. 26, 1882.

UNITED STATES EDWARD P. DONNELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR HANGING SAWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,037, dated September 26,. 1882 Application filed May 4, 1882. (No model.)

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My invention relates to an improvement in the manner of fastening saws to mandrels.

The object of my invention is to provide a device by means of which saws may be firmly secured to a mandrel at any desired point along in the length of said mandrel.

To this end my invention consists ina combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a saw secured to a manthe saw to be used.

drel with my improved device. Fig.2 is a sectional elevation of the same; and Figs. 3 and 4 are detailed views, referred to hereinafter.

Similar letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary saw; B, the mandrel, provided with a key wall or groove, on. On the mandrel B is slipped a split collar, 0,,provided 011 the inside with a projection, c, which fits in the groove on in mandrel B. This collar 0 is screw-threaded on its outer surface for about half its length, the remaining part being tapered, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and has a slot, 8, extending the Whole of its length, rendering it capable of being clamped firmly on the mandrel B, as hereinafter set forth. ()n the split collar 0 is a solid collar, D, bored out with a taper correspondin g with the taper of the split collar 0, and provided on its inner face with an annular projection, e,which corresponds in size to the eye of (See Fig. 4.)

E is around nutor collar, provided on its periphery with a number of holes, d, to re ceivethe end of a wrench or bar intightening up the saw, in the'manner described more fully hereinafter, and bored out and internally screw-threaded to receive the threaded portion of the split collar 0.

The manner of securing a saw on the mandrel with this device is as follows: The split collar 0, with collar D thereon, is slipped on the mandrel B with the projection o in the slot at. The eye of the saw A is placed over the annular projection e on collar D, and the nut E screwed on the. threaded portion of split collar 0. As the nut is tightened against the saw by means of a spanner-wrench engaging with the holes at or otherwise, the split collar 0 is drawn into the tapered portion of collar D, closing said collar 0 tightly to the mandrel B, and at the same time clamps the saw firmly between the faces of collar D and nut E.

The face of collar D and nut E, where they come against the saw, may be recessed slightly near the center to secure a perfect fit against the saw near the outer edge, which is generally desirable.

In some cases the groove a and projection 0" where it is desired to change the relative positions of said saws.

All the parts being around the mandrel and slipped on from the end, there is no possibility of any part being thrown with disastrous results, as is the case with some fasteningdevices now in use, even shouldthe said parts become loose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a saw-fastening device, the combination of a split collar, '0, having its exterior partly tapered and partly screw-threaded, a solid collar, D, having a tapering bore corresponding with the taper of the split collar, to which it is fixed, and a nut, E, adapted to fit the threaded portion of the split collar, substantially as shown and described.

2. A split collar, 0, tapered and screwthreaded, as shown and described, and pro vided with a projection, c, a correspondinglytapered, collar, D, with annular projection 6,

and a nut; E, in combination with mandrelB, having a groove, a, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination of the tapered and screwthreaded split collar (J, having projection c, eorrespondiugly-tapered collar D, with annular projection a, nut E, having holes (I, saw A, and mandrel B, having groove a, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 1o presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD I. DONNELL.

Witnesses:

FRANK J oHNsoN, OLAoK S. HARRISON. 

